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Microsoft patches 'the class of 2007'
News The remaining zero-day vulnerabilities for which fixes are now available are in Internet Explorer and Word, Microsoft said. The Word flaw had also been... [09 May 2007]
Zero-day attack strikes Office
News When a user opens a rigged Word file, it may corrupt system memory in such a way that an attacker could gain complete control over the PC, Microsoft... [16 Feb 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word-processor... [02 Feb 2007]
Office 2008 for Mac: It's coming this year
News Other features unique to Office 2008 for Mac include an improved ability to do page layout work within Microsoft Word, and a new set of templates in Excel which allow users to do things like create... [11 Jan 2007]
Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws
News Microsoft yesterday released fixes for vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software but left several known Word zero-day flaws without a patch. Andrew Storms, director of security operations at... [10 Jan 2007]
Attacks still battering unpatched Windows flaws
News A flaw in Word has gone unpatched since early this month and a flaw in an IE ActiveX control called daxctle.ocx first surfaced on 14 September. For the attack to be carried out, a user... [28 Sep 2006]
Security group issues emergency IE patch
News Word of the vulnerability came last week, when the weakness was already being exploited in cyber attacks. In January, an outside patch was created for a vulnerability in... [25 Sep 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" Word flaw
News Trojan MDropper.Q exploits the Microsoft Word vulnerability to drop another file, a new variant of Backdoor.Femo, according to a security advisory by Symantec. An... [05 Sep 2006]
Think twice about Office upgrades - Gartner
News In the Professional Plus version, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are augmented with the Access and Publisher products that come with the Professional edition,... [23 Jun 2006]
Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News Word of the outbreak and of the new flaw comes just days after Microsoft released 12 security bulletins with fixes for 21 vulnerabilities in several of its products,... [19 Jun 2006]
Microsoft gives a heads-up on Office 2007
News With Professional Plus, the standard Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook applications are augmented with the Access and Publisher products that come with the... [16 Feb 2006]
Two new WMF flaws emerge
News Word of the new problems comes just days after Microsoft rushed out a critical update for a vulnerability related to the rendering of WMF files. Explorer runs... [10 Jan 2006]
Apple releases more big cat security patches
News One affected programs that use AppKit to open Microsoft Word documents. Another problem, which also affected Appkit, meant a user who opened a specially crafted rich text... [16 Aug 2005]
5 years ago... Virus experts fear 'daughter of Melissa'
News According to Alex Shipp, virus technologist at ISP Star Internet, if a user who has received the email runs Microsoft Word 97 on the 25 December,... [22 Nov 2004]
Google squares up to Microsoft
News The index might also show a photo or MP3 file that was labelled with the word in it. The software then scans the hard drive in... [14 Oct 2004]
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